Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Series: Penguin Readers Level 5 (PGR5) YL 5.0~6.0
Genre: HR
YL: 5.0-6.0
Headwords: 2300
Total Word Count: 19,000
Rating: ****


Summary: The chilling tale of a wealthy doctor with a double personality, in terror of the evil Mr Hyde who is living within his own skin.

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Title: Treasure Island
Series: Penguin Readers Level 2 (PGR2) YL 2.4~2.6
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Genre: AD
YL: 2.4-2.6
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 6,000
Rating: ****


Summary: A young boy, Jim Hawkins, lives quietly by the sea with his mother and father until Billy Bones comes to live with them. From that day on, everything is different and Jim soon meets Long John Silver and travels with him in search of Treasure Island.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: MY
YL: 3.4-3.6
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 12,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought that he was dead. But three years later, he returned to England. Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, had many more adventures together. Read three of Sherlock Holmes most interesting cases and look out for other Sherlock Holmes stories at different levels in Penguin Readers.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Boscombe Pool
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: MY
YL: 3.2-3.4
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 7,800
Rating: ****

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Summary: Who killed Charles McCarthy, and why? Was it really his son? Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective, must answer these questions with the help of his trusted friend Dr Watson.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Genre: CS
YL: 3.4-3.6
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 11,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: There are five stories in this book. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Barrel of Amontillado" are stories of madness; "The Maelstrom" describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in "The Murders of the Rue Morgue" and "The Stolen Letter" meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's famous Parisian detective.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 5 (PGR5) YL 5.0~6.0
Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Genre: AT
YL: 5.0-6.0
Headwords: 2300
Total Word Count: 29,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: A man is haunted by his own imagination, hidden writing that leads to buried treasure, a fisherman fighting for his life in a powerful whirlpool. In these short stories by Edgar Allan Poe we meet people struggling with death. Others are trying to solve the darkest of mysteries. Which of them will succeed?

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 5 (PGR5) YL 5.0~6.0
Title: The War of the Worlds
Author: Wells, H. G.
Genre: SF
YL: 5.0-6.0
Headwords: 2300
Total Word Count: 28,100
Rating: ****

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Summary: The War of the Worlds is one of the most famous and frightening science fiction stories ever written. When a strange object falls from the sky and lands in southern England, few people are worried. But then strange creatures climb out and start killing people. Before long, the land is being attacked by huge fighting machines and nobody is safe ...

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 5 (PGR5) YL 5.0~6.0
Title: The Invisible Man
Author: Wells, H. G.
Genre: SF
YL: 5.0-6.0
Headwords: 2300
Total Word Count: 20,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: One winter's day a mysterious stranger arrives in the quiet village of Iping. He wears a long coat and gloves. His head is covered with bandages and his eyes are hidden behind a dark glasses. He spends most of his time alone. The villagers soon realize they are in great danger when they discover his terrible secret.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 2 (PGR2) YL 2.4~2.6
Title: The Mysterious Island
Author: Verne, Jules
Genre: AD
YL: 2.4-2.6
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 6600
Rating: ****

Summary: There are three men, a boy and a dog in a balloon over the Pacific but only two men and the boy arrive on the island. Mysterious things start happening. Are they the only people on the island? Where is the other man and his dog?

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 2 (PGR2) YL 2.4~2.6
Title: Round the World in Eighty Days
Author: Verne, Jules
Genre: AD
YL: 2.4-2.6
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 8400
Rating: ****



Summary: Can Phileas Fogg go round the world in eighty days? He doesn’t know that somebody wants to stop him. Then Fogg will lose his bet – twenty thousand pounds!

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Series: Oxford Bookworms Library Starters (OBW0) YL 0.8~1.2
Title: Taxi of Terror
Author: Burrows, Philip & Foster, Mark
Genre: CO
YL: 0.8
Headwords: 250
Total Word Count: 700
Rating: ****

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Summary: 'How does it work?' Jack asks when he opens his present - a mobile phone. Later that night, Jack is a prisoner in a taxi in the empty streets of the dark city. He now tries his mobile for the first time. Can it save his life?

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Series: Oxford Bookworms Library Starters (OBW0) YL 0.8~1.2
Title: Robin Hood
Author: Escott, John
Genre: HU
YL: 0.8
Headwords: 250

Total Word Count: 1500
Rating: ****

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Summary: 'You're a brave man, but I am afraid for you.' says Lady Marian to Robin of Locksley. She is afraid because Robin does not like Prince John's new taxes and wants to do something for the poor people of Nottingham. When Prince John hears this, Robin is suddenly in danger - great danger.

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Series: Oxford Bookworms Library Starters (OBW0) YL 0.8~1.2
Title: Escape
Author: Burrows, Philip & Foster, Mark
Genre: CS
YL: 0.9
Headwords: 250
Total Word Count: 1500
Rating: ****

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Summary: 'I'm not a thief. I'm an innocent man,' shouts Brown. He is angry because he is in prison and the prison guards hate him. Then one day Brown has an idea. It is dangerous - very dangerous.

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